[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.10-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.10-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.10-rc1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
43e4f7dc54687d68bf3a1949a18620ae10aaa52762d65354d7efa0e62d0b7829 
zutils-1.10-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of 
compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any file given, 
including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is used. 
Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files are created.

These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ 
programs. In particular the option "--recursive" is very efficient in those 
utilities supporting it.

The utilities provided are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest, and zupdate.
The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz.
Zutils uses external compressors. The compressor to be used for each format 
is configurable at runtime.

zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell scripts 
provided by GNU gzip. ztest is unique to zutils. zupdate is similar to 
gzip's znew.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html


Changes in this version:

  * A portability issue with Solaris 10 has been fixed.

  * It has been documented in the manual that 'zgrep -L' fails with GNU 
grep versions 3.2 to 3.4 inclusive because of a wrong change reverted in GNU 
grep 3.5.

  * 'make check' now tests empty input files with all tools except zupdate.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about interoperability and long-term archiving, please help me 
replace xz with lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.